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An ancient magical artifact causes floating lie meters to appear above everypony's heads. This causes Twilight to reflect on honesty and friendship. Based on an idea by theworstwriter. ·shortskirtsandexplosions

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I am Cold, swirling snow that turns ponies against each other. I am Survivor, the one the Friendfyre spell didn't catch. I am Demon, and Clover the Clever is my Master. *Winner of Equestria Daily's Outside Insight contest* ·Aquaman

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With the onset of the windigo curse, Commander Hurricane and the other tribal leaders leave in search of new lands. They aren't the only ones to face challenges, as the tribes inch closer and closer to ripping each other apart with each day. ·The 24th Pegasus

Having discovered the message left for her by Star Swirl the Bearded in the distant past, Twilight once again finds herself caught up in the middle of a struggle against forces far greater than herself. In order to even stand a chance she'll need to travel further and wider than she ever has, and forge some unlikely alliances with old enemies. All to bring down the powers that have manipulated and shaped her entire life, and retake control of her own future.

“No!” I say, loud enough to disturb the other conversations going on around the table. “I mean, so what if we did study the Elements? It’s not like I found out anything new. I certainly didn’t come into possession of any kind of forbidden information about them!” I don’t think I’d be a very good spy

“Maybe we should call them something distinct to avoid confusion,” I suggest. I ponder the quandary for a moment. What about an acronym? Everything’s better with acronyms. “How about, just for the sake of argument, we call them the Roh?”

“Roh?” repeats Celestia, raising a skeptical eyebrow.

“Fight the pow-ah!” shouts Pinkie. We all turn to her, Celestia’s story momentarily forgotten. “What?” she asks.

...Eakin makes Gurren Lagann references? No, it can't be...

Not bad for an introductory chapter, kinda slow, but does hint at things that are going to happen in the future, like the prophecy. My theory that is that it was stating that time is literally short, and the elements are going to create a "perfect order" or a "perfect harmony", and the only way something like that could exist is if there was no chaos or change, and that can only happen if time stops, literally, just freezes.

As for my predictions for where the story is going, I have a feeling Discord is going to play a big roll in the story, because, I mean how can you have a story about fighting order, without having the embodiment of it's polar opposite, change or chaos. I also wonder if there is going to be a yin yang motif, with Twilight being the median between the two, Discord being the force that binds the two sides, Celestia being order, and Luna being disorder.

All good things, unfortunately. I'll try to make the end of the ride memorable as the rest. Based on what I've got planned it'll either be the most epic thing I've ever written or an overly ambitious clusterbuck. Time will tell!

I'd love to claim that's some clever artistic statement, but the truth is that writing multiple stories at once just gets my wires crossed sometimes. I used the "was that really only yesterday? It felt like months ago!" joke in Artemis, Stella and Beat last week.

Had I been able to complete the first four chapters before EQG launched, I actually thought about using that as a gag later on. You'll probably be able to figure out where when you read it, but it would be a fairly massive spoiler to tell you now.

Comment posted by Music-and-magic deleted at 2:42am on the 27th of June, 2013

“I am hiding Star Swirl’s work on the Elements of Harmony,” she goes on to say.

Hmm. Two possibilities spring to mind.

1: Of course she's hiding it. After your adventure in the past with Star Swirl, obviously you or he instructed her to keep it a secret until now, to avoid time paradox.

2: Of course she's hiding it. After <things went horribly wrong> in the past with Star Swirl, the Elements ordered her to keep it secret, and either outright overpowered her, messed with her mind, or threatened her little ponies to the point where she had to comply.

So I have some metaphysical time travel thoughts i would like to share.

This may contain spoilers and because I don't feel like reading through every single comment of this series this may contain what someone else said, however I assure you that these are all my personal ponderings and musings

This new story will most likely focus on the regalia of magic because it should not exist. The regalia of magic came initially from an alternate timeline. And was then brought to another timeline and then sent backwards in time, in order to come to the present and meet itself again if only for a bit. The problem with this is that there is no beginning to the sequence of events. The only reason the regalia exists is because it existed in an alternate timeline that was not meant to exist. So I can only suppose that a consciousness outside of the boundaries of time I.e the elements some how caused this to happen.